As I saw it

Last Saturday evening I was part of a TED Circle discussion on curious leadership thanks to an invitation from my friend Anurag Sharma. Here is what I shared there: - Leaders need to develop the mindful knack of knowing when to step on and step off the pedals of divergent and convergent thinking so that they get into a beautiful, continuously flowing dance of equilibrium.   - We are all born curious but as we age and as the numerous tasks and decisions put pressure on our brain, it goes into a pattern identification mode to save on time and energy. This often makes it close the loop faster with incomplete information and thus jump to conclusions. This happens also because as Richard Bandler says, the strongest human instinct is to keep things familiar.   - Hence the more we can delay the closure of the circuit and the more mindful we are of our judgmental tendency, better it is for curiosity.   - I still remember the wise advice my senior lawyer Mr. Devraj S...